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View RoadmapQuality & Reliability
Team Independence
Reduced Complexity
Team Happiness
Challenges Addressed: Fetching code from mainframe SCM for scanning and dealing with dependencies
Detailed Benefits: Ensure application security early, prior to testing or production (shift-left)
Key Enabling Tools*: Zowe CLI or Bridge for Git
*Enabling tools are included in the DevOps Suite, including Brightside support for Zowe CLI, Code4z and Test4z
Challenges Addressed: Inconsistent process and lack of contextual review (e.g. comments against specific code blocks)
Detailed Benefits: Continuous improvement through a formalized review w/ transparency and an audit trail
Key Enabling Tools*: Bridge for Git
*Enabling tools are included in the DevOps Suite, including Brightside support for Zowe CLI, Code4z and Test4z
Challenges Addressed: Lack of contemporary tooling and libraries for the next-generation of developers
Detailed Benefits: High productivity, rapid onboarding, increased collaboration and happy teams
Key Enabling Tools*: Code4z, Endevor Eclipse plugin
*Enabling tools are included in the DevOps Suite, including Brightside support for Zowe CLI, Code4z and Test4z
Challenges Addressed: Lack of direct link to Agile management
Detailed Benefits: Reduced MTTR, Agile tool-enabled change visibility & audit trail with historical context for changes
Key Enabling Tools*: Bridge for Git
*Enabling tools are included in the DevOps Suite, including Brightside support for Zowe CLI, Code4z and Test4z
Challenges Addressed: Tracking of changes by CLI (not user!) with Merge/Conflict resolution and integration of changes by other users
Detailed Benefits: Modern merge - developer does not need to track their changes or others' changes - CLI does it for them when using any IDE w/ terminal
Key Enabling Tools*: Zowe CLI
*Enabling tools are included in the DevOps Suite, including Brightside support for Zowe CLI, Code4z and Test4z
Challenges Addressed: Building outside the full Endevor infrastructure
Detailed Benefits: Empower devs to code and test off-host using modern scripting, etc. without disrupting the traditional process
Key Enabling Tools*: Team Build, Bridge for Git, Zowe CLI
*Enabling tools are included in the DevOps Suite, including Brightside support for Zowe CLI, Code4z and Test4z
Challenges Addressed: Dependence on adminstrators / heavy lifting, cost of excess use of mainframe space / cycles, need to change processors
Detailed Benefits: Developer isolation supports contemporary Agile development, independent of interface (e.g. ISPF, Git, Zowe, Eclipse, VS Code, etc.)
Key Enabling Tools*: Endevor Processors, Dynamic Environments, Deferred File Creation
*Enabling tools are included in the DevOps Suite, including Brightside support for Zowe CLI, Code4z and Test4z
Challenges Addressed: Dealing with monolithic apps and directory builds with traditional tooling or, alternatively, porting applications to Git
Detailed Benefits: Recruit, onboard and retain the next generation by enabling them to use Git with a risk-managed option
Key Enabling Tools*: Bridge for Git, Zowe CLI
*Enabling tools are included in the DevOps Suite, including Brightside support for Zowe CLI, Code4z and Test4z
Challenges Addressed: Risk of human error and manual access; lack of audit trail
Detailed Benefits: Repeatable, dependable deployments at scale and speed with governance / compliance
Key Enabling Tools*: Zowe CLI
*Enabling tools are included in the DevOps Suite, including Brightside support for Zowe CLI, Code4z and Test4z
Challenges Addressed: Duplication of approvals in multiple systems; stakeholders needing access to mainframe; lack of audit trail
Detailed Benefits: Increased software delivery velocity through process automation
Key Enabling Tools*: Zowe CLI
*Enabling tools are included in the DevOps Suite, including Brightside support for Zowe CLI, Code4z and Test4z
Challenges Addressed: Manual creation of packaging code for promotion
Detailed Benefits: Increased software delivery velocity through process automation
Key Enabling Tools*: Zowe CLI
*Enabling tools are included in the DevOps Suite, including Brightside support for Zowe CLI, Code4z and Test4z
Challenges Addressed: Visibility / traceability between CRs and code
Detailed Benefits: Governance, compliance and elimination of delays due to duplication of data entry
Key Enabling Tools*: Zowe CLI
*Enabling tools are included in the DevOps Suite, including Brightside support for Zowe CLI, Code4z and Test4z
Challenges Addressed: Lack of universal SCM paradigm for all developers
Detailed Benefits: Standardization across the org; access to modern script libraries; distributed development; control over builds
Key Enabling Tools*: Team Build, Zowe CLI
*Enabling tools are included in the DevOps Suite, including Brightside support for Zowe CLI, Code4z and Test4z
Challenges Addressed: Lack of developer-friendly option leads to inadequate or missing unit tests
Detailed Benefits: Shift-left quality and velocity through modern test automation practices
Key Enabling Tools*: Test4z
*Enabling tools are included in the DevOps Suite, including Brightside support for Zowe CLI, Code4z and Test4z
Challenges Addressed: Manual testing and test neglect; lack of common testing frameworks across platforms
Detailed Benefits: Shift-left quality and velocity through common test automation frameworks
Key Enabling Tools*: Test4z, Zowe CLI
*Enabling tools are included in the DevOps Suite, including Brightside support for Zowe CLI, Code4z and Test4z
EBOOK
For teams facing delivery velocity and staffing challenges, the status quo is no longer an option. They are challenging themselves to deliver even higher levels of value to the business. 
Use this eBook to assess the broad set of AppDev-related modernization opportunities that unlock real business value.
eBook includes:
Comprehensive Inventory of Use Cases
Value Driver Frameworks, including ROI and LOE
Expert Guidance to Facilitate the Journey
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